OWNING IT: What it's like to live with OCD and what we get wrong about it
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
For this episode I am joined by fellow journalist and podcaster Aisling Keenan (her podcast is Private Education which is all about sex and relationships, she has a live event happening in Dublin soon and tickets are available here). Aisling is a very open person but something she's never discussed openly is her experience of OCD with which she was recently diagnosed. I wanted to understand more about this condition as it's so wrapped up in misinformation and it's so often trivialised. If you're someone with OCD I hope you'll find this comforting and if you know someone who struggles with OCD, I hope that you'll feel that little bit more informed after listening so that you are better able to support them.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to Owning It. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolineforan.substack.com. Thank you. |
| 0:20.7 | Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety |
| 0:23.5 | podcast with me, Caroline Forin. This week I'm joined by the brilliant Ashlyn Keenan, who's an Irish journalist |
| 0:30.2 | and content creator. She does so many different things. She's an editor. She has an incredible |
| 0:36.5 | podcast called Private Education, |
| 0:38.3 | which I have been on myself twice, and then recently you'll recognise Ashland's voice from |
| 0:43.9 | an episode that I published of hers where we chatted about anxiety and relationships. |
| 0:49.1 | Today we're having a different conversation. Today, Ashling has very, very kindly and willingly shared with me her experience |
| 0:56.3 | of being diagnosed with OCD and what that means for her and we talk about everything from all the |
| 1:01.3 | misconceptions surrounding OCD to how she manages it to what people need to know about the condition |
| 1:06.9 | and I want to say from from the outset that it that it's not something that I've experienced, |
| 1:11.7 | I've not been diagnosed with it, I'm a little bit out of my depth on this subject and I probably |
| 1:15.6 | will have to follow up maybe with a specialist or a clinical psychologist who can help people |
| 1:21.0 | understand more about the condition. But for now, Ashtling is sharing her experience, her story and |
| 1:26.0 | hopefully you will find it helpful or relatable in some way. |
| 1:29.2 | As always, thank you so much for subscribing. |
| 1:31.4 | Thank you for your very kind reviews and your messages on Instagram. |
| 1:34.4 | Always love receiving those. |
| 1:36.6 | And if you have signed up to my Patreon page, I'm very, very grateful for that too. |
| 1:40.9 | You can find me on patreon.com forward slash Caroline Forin and you can throw a little tip into |
| 1:45.8 | the owning a tip jar there if you do so wish. Thank you so much. Hope you enjoy this episode and I'll |
| 1:50.6 | be back next week. I'm so happy to have you Ashton, Ashley King of Private Education Podcasts. |
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